YESTERDAY, Molde had reportedly accepted a£4m bid by Liverpool Football Club for central defender Vegard Forren; however after the player touched down in England, the proposed move is off, with Forren seemingly now headed for Southampton.
Rather than bidding, as widely reported, Liverpool had only offered a trial to the Norwegian, with Brendan Rodgers preparing to assess the defender at Melwood today.
However, Molde have now accepted a concrete offer from Southampton and Forren has made a u-turn, instead heading South for talks with the Saints this afternoon.
Norwegian television channel, TV2, originally broke the Liverpool story in Scandinavia early yesterday, where it was then picked up by ESPN and the Daily Mirror in the UK.
Forren was a stand-out player for Molde as Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s side lifted the Tippeligaen (Norwegian title) last season, as well as making his debut for the Norwegian national side.
His progress hasn’t gone unnoticed on this side of the North Sea with several Premier League clubs said to have been running their eyes over the defender. TV 2 had even announced that Liverpool had acted swiftest of all to secure his signature, having had an offer accepted.
According to TV2 yesterday:
“Molde has accepted a bid from Premier League club Liverpool. The 24-year old is travelling to England on Tuesday to undertake a medical.”
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The Daily Mirror however, claimed that the deal was on a trial basis and that Forren will train with the first team at Melwood on Tuesday; something which has now proven true, and since confirmed by Molde manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer:
“We have had a good dialogue with Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers, who wanted to speak with Vegard and see him in training.
“We agreed that he could go there to see the conditions. But Liverpool have not made a bid.”
Forren has been likened in Scandinavia to Liverpool’s very own Daniel Agger because he’s good on the ball, strong and left-footed. It remains to be seen just how the Norwegian will settle in the Premier League, but if any comparisons with Agger prove true, then Liverpool fans could bemoan ‘the one that got away’.
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This doesnt surprise me . Liverpool were being cheap just offering him a trial . Its the 2nd time Southampton ( yes southampton ! ) have beaten us to a player by offering more , spurs do it all the time now .
This rather defines FSGs tenure – MEDIOCRITY , outbid by southamptons and spurs
Congradulations Mr. Henry – you have turned us into Everton ( without the astute manager )
We can’t be outbid, if we didn’t actually make a bid
That says it all , the guy is a 4m rated international , and the tight fools wanted to give him a trial . a trial ? You give 16 year olds trials NOT internationals
Gross incompetence as usual from Rodgers and/or FSG
More Liverpool fans belittling Southampton FC – It gets boring after a while.
Once you realize you are simply another Mid table club and no longer one of the top 4, it will probably be easier to take.
Why not do some reading into Southampton – you might see why they are actually quite an attractive club to play for.
Fair play to you , you have better owners than us . At least your owners are doing their best for you
He will learn the hard way like Gaston Ramirez… Only been there 6 months and wants out apparently !
If he doesn’t want to compete for his position then Southampton is the place to go, although he will have to accept he won’t be competing for anything else there !
And what would he be competing for at Liverpool?
…at least his position !
And not sure if you’ve seen the table recently. But after a VERY poor start to the season we are currently 3 points off 5th place so with a couple additions who knows where we can finish !?
Still in Europe aswell !
What can Southampton offer, the thrill of a relegation battle?
Why would he want to compete for his position?!
If he’s that good, he’ll have the best of both worlds and play every game from here on this season for Saints, and then play for a top 6 team in a year or two, again playing most games..
What does Liverpool offer under Rodgers ? Nothing except mid table mediocrity . We cant even beat 1 good team under bozo brendan
So your argument is he could join a team competing for 5th in the league? When was 5th ever good enough for LFC? You don’t get medals and trophies or CL football for 5th. So 5th or 15th not much different to me in the grand scheme of things. Oh well you still got the monkey, sorry EUROPA league… You’re a marginally better option than all those clubs at the bottom of the table, and even they seem to have better pulling power…
If you look I said we are 3 point off 5th ! Not that we are aiming for 5th…
We are a club that are rebuilding and we are due to slip up along the way.
The 2 big clubs we have played so far this year Utd, City we have out played but not got the result…
KD rushed things when he was in charge, BR is taking his time, which I like.
Ramirez has just been quoted saying how happy he is at Southampton , anything to the contrary is just paper talk.
New ‘Agger’? Give me a new Yeats, Emlyn Hughes, Hyypia, Hansen or Tommy Smith!!! Please!!
Southampton Top 6…?
And they say LFC fans are deluded ! Or do you mean top 6 in the championship ?
So with Man U, Man city, Chelsea, Arsenal, Totenham, Liverpool and even Everton… Who are they going to replace up there…?
Competition is always good and healthy, and will allow a 24 year old to gain the experience needed to play and succeed in the premiership !
he didnt actually say that dumb ass
learn to read u fool
Learn punctuation before commenting on spelling !
OK so I mis-read his comment, I presumed he meant Southampton would be top 6.
Easy mistake to make !
You dont understand football Mr Henry ( neither of you )
Another epic fail by the clowns who call themselves FSG
This ‘cautiousness’ in the transfer market is embarrassing and costly . The dumb yanks should flip off back to the US _ bunch of idiots !
We are losing out on a average-ish 4m player . Look at what FSG and Rodgers have turned us into ?
It tooks years for Shankley to build us up into a great club . Its only taken FSG 2years to turn us into an average one
We were already down before FSG got involved… Hicks and Gillett !
FSG went big supporting KD in the transfer market and got stung big time !
We haven’t got the income to justify buying big, buy clever is the way forward for now !
Get Champions league football and the revenue that brings then start spending…
Players lost !
Gylfi Sigurðsson – “Stolen” by Spurs ! 21 games/ 2 goals
Clint Dempsey – “Stolen” by Spurs ! 25 games / 6 goals
Can live without them… Sturridge 2 games, 2 goals ! But yes early days…
You know as much about football as the real John W. Pure stupidity
We have no chance of champions league ever , until the dumb yanks spend big .
FSG are sinking us faster than the iceberg sunk the titanic
Ive never seen such mis-managment of a football club
Yanks out
U dumb *. U only need to look at our previous owners to see a group that took one of the great sporting institution to the brink of receivership.
Get some sort of activity moving in that pea brain of yours before you open your meaningless trap.
” buy clever is the way forward ” LOL – clever ?
15m on Allen – clever ?
11m on Borini – clever ?
3m on Assaidi – clever ?
2/3m on Sahin loan – clever ?
you dont know what you are talking about mate . clever , americans and football DONT go in the same sentence
we didnt even want Sigurdsson or Dempsey , they are not good enough and were lucky escapes and its too early to say Sturridge is great . FSG or H&G are all the same , americans trying to make a few quid out of LFC .
FSG are totally incompetent and are ruining this great club
by the way John W – you are american for real ? i can tell
John W – its difficult to listen to any of your points when you clearly dont know your facts at all . We are 6 points off 3rd NOT 3 .
Your points and your facts are wrong and show u as someone who doesnt have much knowledge of football
Dempsey , Sigurdsson ,Forren ,Ramirez , and probably a few others too all taken away from us
Now , why didnt that happen with Allen , Assadi , Borini and Sahin ? oh yes … because they are rubbish that no decent club wanted .
We have NO chance of enticing top players anymore whilst Rodgers is boss . Next summer expect more useless ex swansea players to come in , while our rivals buy the good ones
Well done all LFC “fans” on here, well done for hating on your team and your manager !
We have what we’ve got, deal with it ! As for comments like we’re a sinking ship !? Which way UP the league have we been climbing…?
I’m not American, I’m English and loyal fan who supports his club who ever is in charge !
Allen has been decent this season, Borini an Italian international, Assaidi is young and Sahin was worth a gamble having been the best player in the German league before moving to REAL MADRID !?
We will struggle to attract big names with CL, fact ! So you buy young players with potential…
As for buying Swansea players, I wouldn’t say no to Michu or Vorm…
you just showed your stupidity again . nobody thinks allen has been decent , nobody except a fool who doesn’t even watch the football
everything you say is stupid and wrong
LOL . Anyone who thinks Allen has been decent is just a blinkered biased fool . You also think we are 3 points off 5th , You also think Assaidi is young ….. erm wrong again he is 24 , you didnt even read the southampton guys comment before replying to it . Borini has only played 15 minutes for Italy ,so do you actually know anything about Liverpool or football in general ? No it appears not
I have never seen such stupidity from one person’s comments before . Well done
LOL . Anyone who thinks Allen has been decent is just a daydreaming idiotic fool . You also think we are 3 points off 5th, you also think Assaidi is young , wrong again he is 24 .
Borini has played 15 minutes for Italy, so do you actually know anything about Liverpool or football in general ? No it appears not
I have never seen such stupidity from one person’s comment before . Well done
@JohnW – some others on here share your faith , they are delusional but know their stuff and have knowledge of liverpool . you are delusional and dont know damn all ,so its hard to take you seriously
I said 3 months ago Rodgers was a joke , did most people listen ? no . they wanted to give him time , have patience , let his signings get up to speed .
Well he has had time . Now anyone still having ‘faith’ is Rodgers is either really really stupid and doesnt understand football at all , or really really naive and delusional .
Classic. All this pathetic whinging dribble over notaspersing 4m on a bloke that none of you would have seen kick a ball.
Did city united Chelsea arsenal put an offer in for him? He’s ended up at a team that will be in the championship in 2 years time and we’ve more than likely saved ourselves about 10m by not offering a contract.
What makes this even funnier is that all you same pecker heads would have been * and moaning like school girls had we signed him.
Once again stupidity pours out of ozred . Never had 1 intelligent comment from you .
Tch . aussies and footbal eh ?
So you want this Norwegian agger or you don’t want him? Just another sad little geezer with nothing going on. Move along you twit.
City , Utd or Arsenal didnt want Sturridge either … yet you have been banging on about him
talk sense or be quiet
City had sturridge u fool. They also have 40 million to spend every time they want to buy a striker. If we had that sort of cash to spend I’d take aguero and move sturridge on as well.
Please show the least but of intelligence or don’t bother posting as you make a fool of yourself every time you do.
Your the stupid one , never met an Australian that understood football yet , but now we have a troll pretending to LOL
Classic Phil. Did you take the dummy out of your mouth when you spat out that jibberish???
Do you want the Norweigien or not??? It’s not a hard question.
do u even know what shape the ball is ? dumb troll